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" During the war, I saw many films that made me fall in love with the cinema. "
Francois Truffaut
War
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" I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist. "
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" I'd skip school regularly to see movies - even in the morning, in the small Parisian theaters that opened early. "
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